Layer hens typically are housed in sheds the lengths of football fields in long rows of battery cages, which are stacked several tiers high. The small cages hens live in are termed “battery cages.” A ...

The organisation is calling for a ban on all types of cages for egg-laying hens by 2007. A new European directive will outlaw battery cages throughout Europe from 2012. However, the law still ...

The consultation comes after the use of battery cages for birds was banned in the UK at start of 2012. However, there are still more than 1.1 million chickens in Scotland kept in “enriched cages ...

With increased area, head scratching, body shaking and feather raising were performed at a higher rate and cage pecking at a lower rate. .. Welfare implications are briefly discussed.

Professor Christine Nicol obtained a degree in Zoology from the University of Oxford, and then completed a PhD on the welfare of laying hens housed in battery cages. Her concern for the welfare ...

Scotland could become the first nation in the UK to ban egg companies from keeping chickens in cages ... scratch and rest than the battery or barren cages that were banned in the UK in 2012.